Gave the R90 a bit of a tidy up, it had a nice set of Staintunes on it, but rusty old headers. Took the ones off the race bike and had them all polished.
Added a second disc with S/S lines, new pistons and cable.
Fitted the ex R65 Konis and some HD fork springs with 10wt oil.

I rode it today into town, on the motorway and to work, its really nice to ride. Later ones have better brakes and are a firmer ride with better gearshifts.
I scored it from just north of Welly, Nainaie or summit for $5K.
They come up on TM but you have to be quick and take a punt.
They are undervalued compared to Brit and Iti iron but starting to pick up.

Very nice Voltaire. Having sheds full of old Land Rovers myself, I can appreciate the old BMWs as good, solid, simple machines. Not necessarily totally reliable, but so simple to do anything with that it really doesn't matter. Good on ya for keeping it going and using it. I hope it rewards you with plenty of grins.

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They come up on TM but you have to be quick and take a punt.
They are undervalued compared to Brit and Iti iron but starting to pick up.

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Originally Posted by innathyzit

Funny, was talking to a guy into classic bikes who organises runs etc and was talking about the amount of bmws showing up. Not proper classics in his mind compared to brits and itis etc.

Maybe they too reliable or something, or not appreciated enough? Dunno didn't ask, but interesting.

I'd have one though.

I think the british bikes are overvalued. This is reflected in the prices of british bikes on t me that remain on there for a long time
The other side of it is that a lot of british bike riders also have the luxury of a modern good looking low maintenance old school bike in the bonnie, thruxton, enfield etc. This widens the market for the more modern bloke about town that doesn't have time or motivation to fettle.

A classic bike character was inviting me to take Schmidt on a run. He obviously didn't realise the cutting edge modifications I've done to him.

What's happening in the VW workshop? I'v been looking at too many Baja 1000 sites lately. Man if it takes me so long just putting a bike together I can't imagine doing a Baja conversion

I advertised the Beetle as a 'project', got down as low as $1400 take it away...cut my losses...
Then I parted it out and got my cash investment back.
Even at $1 reserve parts are hard to move, rest went in skip.

Car projects Pfft.

Anyway liking my new work bike. Got a text from the company next door saying " Mate that bike sounds sweet, purrs past music"
Needless to say its not made in Germany

Been using the R90/6 as my daily rider, other than its vintage clunky gearbox its a nice ride, lanesplits well as the panniers are quite narrow.
Yesterday following our annual " Black Start" noticed the rear tyre looking a bit low........ had to get a ride in a cage home.

Today took the back up bike, not as good round town but has a ventura rack to strap wheels to.